Archives for
November 2005

Its creators (jokingly) called it the "Flickr of downloaded TV". Umair Haque says it "threatens to be the first video reconstructor." And PSFK asked - is it the new Tivo? What's more, the site is only a few weeks old and the name was a joke. Nonethel...

I hadn't planned to post on Shoposphere, the social shopping service from Yahoo!, but Kevin Burton pointed to this interesting snippet from the TechCrunch review: There are a couple of features being added in the near future. The first is tagging - a...

Yep, Google Base is chock full of spam links, credit card offers and get rich quick schemes. It's all pretty predictable really. This isn't all Google's fault and it's great to see them trying out a risky (and perhaps revolutionary) idea, but inevita...

Another take on social news: Gabbr allows you to submit posts from your blog and discuss them in a centralized location. Not much to see there right now, but they're calling this "phase one", so hopefully there's more to come. It sounds vaguely simil...

Om Malik writes: Since this past Thursday, I have heard whispers that Riya, a Redwood City, California-based photo service is being courted by Google. Now this rumor has been repeated by multiple sources, though not one of them is directly involved w...

All this talk of Riya's possible acquisition has made me think about image search, face recognition and all the problems in that area. Getting humans to tag your photos, ala Flickr, seems to work on some levels, as does the traditional method of look...

Russell Beattie points to a site called AllYourWords, which allows you to associate a keyword with a website. He links the idea to Keith Teare's RealNames, which showed some real potential but didn't come to anything: It’s inspiring in the sense that...

Riffs is a social software site that lets you vote and comment on products, celebrities, websites, places, events and just about everything else. It's like a simplified version of Epinions. The interface is great and it's all very accessible - you'll...

Rob Hof points to a search engine called AnooX, which claims to pay users to search. What's more, it appears to have a human voting system built on top of a regular search engine, just like my beloved Wink. I think revenue-sharing with users is great...

Great news! Microsoft has introduced a concept called Simple Sharing Extensions. From SeattlePI: RSS feeds are streams of data commonly used by people to receive news and information. But what about using them for two-way sharing of information? Micr...

Mike Arrington over at TechCrunch has put up an excellent post on Companies I’d like to Profile (but don’t exist). The interesting thing is, I've actually tried pursuing two of the ideas that he suggests, so I'm in a pretty good position to comment o...

Christoph Janz just emailed me to let me know that CalendarHub is now in public beta. I must admit I really like it. The interface is simple, attractive and intuitive - nice work! Christoph writes: As an individual Build a calendar for your own priva...

Interesting - Amazon has debuted Product Wikis, allowing customers to edit product descriptions. This is one step beyond the consumer reviews they're so famous for. The Church of the Customer writes: Amazon has launched ProductWiki, a route for "cust...

Greg Yardley has the latest on Google's new Click-To-Call service. This was inevitable, of course, but it's still interesting to finally see it on the main search page (screenshot below) . Like other click-to-call services, you enter your phone numbe...

Alex Barnett made me do it! He's been evangelizing this whole OPML as attention thing for so long that I thought I'd try out OPML Manager, a web-based solution for organizing your OPML lists. I've now uploaded my blogroll to the service - you can exp...

Ken King sent me an email about Transcribr, his new podcast transcription service. From the site: If a podcast goes out on the web and no-one hears it, does it make a sound? Help your audiences find and use your podcasts with enhanced searchability a...

Openomy launched last week - it's essentially an online file system with an open API. All users currently receive 1GB free storage. I've been following this project for a long while now because I find the idea of open storage fairly compelling. In pr...

Last week there was a lot of talk about Riffs, with Jeff Jarvis and Michael Arrington both suggesting that Riffs is too centralized - clearly, we need a service which aggregates reviews, rather than forcing people to rewrite their content across mult...

Filangy appears to be another social search play. It features personalized search (based on your bookmarks and browsing history), social search and tagging. It reminds me of Collaborative Rank, the search engine based on del.icio.us bookmarks. From t...

My roundup of online storage solutions led to a great discussion, including this post, which adds another storage solution to the list: Mozy. The Mozy team will happily give you 1GB free online storage, so long as you allow them to spam you. What's m...

I think Google might have something to say about this one: G2G is a website where you can easily share files, which are at your Gmail, with each other. You register at the website with your Gmail login data and your Gmail account will be indexed. Aft...

So the lovely people over at Corante have been working away on their latest venture: Corante Hubs. Today they launched three new hubs - the Media Hub, the Marketing Hub and Mashable's new home away from home, the Web Hub. Mashable won't change, but m...

Doug Martin just gave me the lowdown on LookLater, his new bookmarking site. He writes: LookLater allows you to create instant searchable bookmarks with a single click into a private archive. Context around the link, page or image is automatically sa...

Here's an idea I've been brewing for a while now: distributed computing as a web service. It's like SETI@home, but with an open API. You download the P2P client to your machine and agree to donate some spare CPU cycles and perhaps a bit of storage. I...

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